Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed feuds with these families had been part of the staple political diet of the early twelfth-century Dukes , though neither Eleanor 's father nor grandfather can be supposed to have been introducing " Anglo-Norman methods of government " . |
| 2 | In such contexts , the main clues showing that the speaker feels someone 's having dared to perform a certain action to be hard to imagine is the nature of the act itself or the circumstances under which it was performed . |
| 3 | So basically what you , you , what you would be likely to do is rip o rip off the system completely for two years at a time |
| 4 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 5 | When it does happen , all that the Minister will be able to say is , " It should not have happened . " |
| 6 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |
| 7 | But if you take the , the servicing sections overall , what we should be able to say is that look okay we 're gon na have a delayed kick in of improved productiv because it , productivity cos of new systems that are helping us , whether it moves us from two point six to two point seven to two point eight is arguable , and we wo n't know that for sure until we get there , but we should n't have is deterioration . |
| 8 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 9 | What he must be able to do is to learn new things . |
| 10 | The parade of lunacy and corruption will continue , but all you will be able to do is go red in the face , mobilise glycogen from your under-used body , build up huge deposits of cholesterol in your coronary arteries and eventually explode , collapse and croak . |
| 11 | In other cases the parents ' view of what their child should be able to do is appropriate but the child is showing a delay in his or her development and needs more detailed assessment of the level of progress . |
| 12 | The best the authorities may be able to do is persuade firms , by tightening security , that the chances of another blast as big as this latest one will be much reduced . |
| 13 | Now , one of them will rotate to the right , one will rotate to the left what you need to be able to do is to identify the condition that will give that give rise to optical isomers , in other words , to be able to say yes , that molecule will have optical isomers . |
| 14 | At best , all any such pill might ever be able to do is to affect the very general housekeeping biochemical processes required for the expression of memory . |
| 15 | What we need to be able to do is to get inside them to really see what is happening . |
| 16 | Erm , what they need to be able to do is just be able to gently lead it along the right tunnel |
| 17 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 18 | She was quietly , in a place called Peddeston , she 's chucked a travel ticket , it 's a bit much for her to do , big tough training and that sort of thing , but hopefully she 'll pass her test in the near future , and all she needs to be able to do is get her rise so she can afford to make up . |
| 19 | I I think what we may be able t I mean yes I think that what you may be able to do is jiggle things about so that , you do n't get much social psychology until the end I know I mean there was n't really much time |
| 20 | That 's something we will , we will be able to do is , you know , is |
| 21 | To be a cleaning lady all you need to be able to do is to say alright properly , with every , alright |
| 22 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 23 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 24 | Whether the Bodens would be able to sleep was another matter . |
| 25 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 26 | To be able to hypothesise is important , to be able to evaluate findings is vital . |
| 27 | Mr Clinton has shown no inkling that this bothers him , no sense that the social programmes he will now not be able to enact are ones over which he will shed many tears . |
| 28 | You may be able to fake being a grunge rock hero , a techno guru , or a new age ambient space cadet , but you can not fake being a pop star . |
| 29 | One can only hope that , in coming years , politicians , bureaucrats and the teaching profession itself will be able to avoid being drawn into that particular trap . |
| 30 | From the tone of her voice , I thought I was not going to be able to avoid being slung in the box and slipped off the Isle of Wight ferry . |